In a first for Connecticut, a state park is about to go wireless. Farm River State park, a 57-acre waterfront site, will soon be a center for environmental study and education, an outdoor classroom for a New Haven magnet school and a base for boating programs. An additional 15 acres feature a marina.
The state, with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Trust for Public Lands, bought both parcels in 1998 for one and three-quarter million dollars. Its management is under contract to Quinnipiac University in Hamden.
Using an $86 thousand dollar state grant, the state park will become Connecticut's first to have wireless Internet access.
Students also can use the wireless park to do "real-time environmental monitoring," including water temperature, quality and salinity, he said.
In addition, Smits said he will place a Web camera near nesting ospreys to be viewed by students on computer screens.
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